Table 3.

Identification, based on blast comparison in GenBank, of 18 lactic acid bacilli selected on the basis of DGGE cluster analysis

Cluster	Strain	Size	Closest relative	% Identity	Sourcea
1	M17	664	Lb. plantarum	100	GU138574
	M24	584	Lb. plantarum	100	GQ922601
	R5	635	Lb. plantarum	99	JQ278711.1
2	T13	634	Lb. plantarum	100	JF728278.1
	T2	636	Lb. plantarum	100	JF728278.1
3	P9	636	Lb. plantarum	100	JQ278711.1
	M11	635	Lb. plantarum	100	JQ278711.1
4	M10	667	Lb. plantarum	99	FJ915780
	M26	650	Lb. plantarum	99	GU138574
	T15	616	Lb. plantarum	99	JQ278711.1
5	M22	481	Lb. plantarum	99	JQ278711.1
	A1	634	Lb. plantarum	100	GU138574
	R2	636	Lb. plantarum	100	JQ278711.1
	R1	634	Lb. plantarum	100	JQ278711.1
6	TA2	635	Lb. plantarum	99	AB112083.1
	TA1	637	Lb. plantarum	99	AB112083.1
	P5	611	Lb. plantarum	99	GU299081.1
	P1	611	Lb. plantarum	99	GU299081.1

^aAccession number of the sequence of the closest relative found by blast search